Assignment

1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens and who lived in  Hartford for several years, is the author of Huckleberry Finn which is a classic American novel.
2. Mark Twain lived in a very elaborate and elegant house in Farmington Avenue in Nook Farm and he was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3. Today, people say that the windows and the balcony overlooking the large side porch in Mark Twain's house remind them of a steamboat which is just logical because Mark Twain used to pilot steamboats in Mississippi in his youth. 
4. Mark Twain was one of  the first three people  in Hartford to own a telephone, which was  first used commercially in nearby New Haven, but he hated this newfangled gadget because he has no one to talk to.
5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these inventions was the elaborate Paige typesetter but unfortunately for Twain, this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was much simpler and less expensive and so, he lost all his fortune in investing in them.
6. When Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy,  died of meningitis in the Hartford home, Mark Twain never felt the same about the house and so,  he left his house and Hartford and only came back once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner

Assignment in COMM 1 (paraphrasing)

1. Aristotle believed that to be able to imitate something, someone has to experience it first. Just like an artist. An artist is allowed to imitate the real nature of his object and in a way convert it to something out of the ordinary but in the process, he has to consider its nature, its true form, its real quality. He explains form in terms of what causes it to be that way. Whereas from Plato's idea that form is idealistic, Aristotle believes that form is innate.
2. Plato and Aristotle differ in the way they understood art in relation of imitations to beauty. For Plato, beauty  is a concept. It is something non concrete, which meaning relies on the one viewing it, that is brought to this natural world of order and certainty. Whereas for Aristotle, he believed that beauty is something existent, not abstract. For Aristotle, beauty exists in an object. It is something inborn.

*the paragraphs above are paraphrases of the original paragraphs taken from the reading entitled 

"Plato and Aristotle on Beauty and Imitation"

Assignment in Comm 1

Main Idea:

• The book review mainly talks about how today's art differs from the traditional way of art after the technology prospered over the years and at the same time explained how "subjects of paintings have their own social meaning" at the light of the female nude painting. 

Supporting Ideas:

• It was somehow understandable that the book review wanted to show that today's art is more widely reproduced than before while the traditional art is more prized because it was the only way to capture the moment that people experienced.
• The book review also stated that the traditional art changed "at the advent of the camera which has manipulated the way we look at art today". The camera paved way to the reproduction of art in a way that it was available for everyone.
• The book review focused on the female nude painting and understood how the females were some kind of used for the sexual pleasure of the men viewing them.